Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c13.58

c13.58

and fever. 3. By kapha the ulcer is whitish, the discharge plentiful, white and tough, there is little pain. 4. By blood the ulcer is red like corals, the discharge consists of blood and pus, the smell is as from a horse's stable, otherwise everything is as by pitta. Eleven more forms that depend upon the different combinations of the above causes and symptoms are described by Su 4.1. The *vranas* on certain parts of body, like eyes, teeth, nose, abdomen, navel, ears, sides, armpits, chest are scarcely curable or incurable, so also the *vranas* in lepers, consumptives, diabetics and other patients, the chronic *vranas* which emit foul-smelling pus and foul blood and are deep-going, and those in which the skull is hurt and the brain is visible, etc (Car 6.25; Su 1.22; 4.1; AS 6.29; AHr 6.25; MN 268-71; Bhav 2.3; Vang 608 ff.).